TACOMA –On Monday, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announced it was monitoring a patient with active tuberculosis who had declined treatment. Court records reveal the woman has not followed ...

Over the last few months, a woman from Tacoma, Washington has been widely featured in local and national media, including the New York Times, for refusing to take medication for active tuberculosis ...

Patient choice in taking treatment is framed by the physiological and psychological impacts of the disease and also by the social and cultural structures in which the person is immersed. [68] Patient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis typically infects the lungs but can spread to the rest of the body. stockdevil/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Washington state woman who was arrested after she refused for more than a year to consistently isolate or take medication for ...

Secukinumab rarely leads to latent tuberculosis infection as a reported adverse event and is supported for use in treating chronic systemic inflammatory conditions. TB is rare in the United States, ...

In this March 24, 2018 file photo, a relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India. The number of people killed by ...

In 1929 in Savannah, Ga., Edna Sutton dreamt of being a nurse. But, as a young black woman, she had few opportunities in her hometown, which was still ruled by Jim Crow laws. The only nursing she ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Of 111,155 tuberculosis diagnoses, researchers found ...

A Washington state woman who was arrested after she refused for more than a year to consistently isolate or take medication for tuberculosis has finally been cured of the disease. The Tacoma-Pierce ...